Well, ladies and gentlemen, we all survived. And after a couple days of recovery, I'm ready to talk about it. Just kidding-we had a great time. We had 21 Model T's and 1 Stanley converge on McPherson from 4 states. Here are some photos.
From Windom:
Sorry about the double photo. Here are a few more. Note the dusty wheels. Nice touch of authenticity, I think.
Last batch.
Thanks for looking.
Coowal, perfect time in Kansas to be running around.
Are one of those sedans,perhaps Steve Jelfs "Mystery T" ???
Is the cream/brown one an Autowa body?
Mike, the Car is owned by Gary Hylton and is an Ames. He's been to CA twice and ran the ocean 2 ocean in 09 in it. His estimate of the miles on it are 75-100K.
The weather was PERFECT!!!!!. Had a great time. Great lunch on Sunday.
George, I don't think so. I haven't had a real good look at it, but I think both the sedans pictured above are too shiny to be it.
My "good" T was sick, so I drove up in modern iron on Saturday to take a few b&w shots. I'll post them after I get the film developed.
Chris, where in Kansas did the tour occur? I suppose from the photos that it was a small town with some old buildings.
The sedans were: black 1926-Bill Wolf, gray 1926-Gary Paulsen (Fronty-powered), green 1927-Larry Sparks. All three ran great.
I agree Jerry, the weather was great.
Steve-it was good to see you-I look forward to seeing the photos.
Terry, we were based in McPherson. Over the three day tour, we went to Windom (first photos), Marquette, Mentor, Salina (photos near RR tracks), Lindsborg, Inman and Galva. The buffalo were in Maxwell Wildlife Preserve, near Canton. The scenes from the road were various points between.
I did take a couple of digital shots.
I'd know the gray/silver speedster anywhere, Mike Vaughn was there. Looks like a great tour.
Chris, see you at Hershey.
Chris,
Thanks for a great weekend! We will have to do it again!
Rob- you should have joined us. But it looks like you were busy working on the K transmission.
Mike
Thank you for the compliments. We had a lot of fun doing it and we are already talking about doing it again next year.
Mike-thank you for making the trip down. Great to get to know you.
Another photo of the Hylton's Ames-bodied Touring and the Sparks' 1927 Tudor.
It was a great time even with the switch trouble I was having. Thank you for doing it. Nice job!
Four other pictures are here: http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/257047/313082.html?1348702731.
I knew that car didn't looked like any Stanley I ever saw.
Looks like it was a great tour.
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2
Yes, I saw the Stanley in the first photo! That looks like Stanleys I have seen.
Here's another photo of the Stanley. It's a 1922 Model 735A.
Was I the only coupe the entire weekend? Thought Keith and I could stay only for a short time due to both having family concerns, we both had a great time. Met many good and friendly people.
There were two coupes at different times during the weekend. Yours and Bud and Karen Redding had their 1926 on Friday. I'm glad you could join us.
Mike and Mike, I'm glad you and your wives made the trip. Thanks for coming.
Here is what happens to the nylon timing gear when the alternator froze up. I was fortunate that it happened in the motel parking lot at the end of the day.
Beautiful cars ,great friendly people , fantastic weather . Wish could have ben therefor whole thing .
Anybody have picture of shooting anvils ?
Thank you for a great first time event , for you guys as well as mine .
If you do it again next year . Consider this my early registration .
Thanks for the super pix.
Mike, it looks like it might have save the crank gear and reduced alternator damage. That's the first nylon gear failure in a T I've seen mentioned.
Do you have any cooling for the alt? I drilled all the holes I could in the case of mine. Remember, they have a fan on the original pulley.
rdr
Thanks for the super pix.
Mike, it looks like it might have save the crank gear and reduced alternator damage. That's the first nylon gear failure in a T I've seen mentioned.
Do you have any cooling for the alt? I drilled all the holes I could in the case of mine. Remember, they have a fan on the original pulley.
rdr
Mike, I can send you a fiber replacement.
I don't consider the gear a failure, I consider the alternator the failure. I put the alternator on the car a couple of weeks ago, it had less than 100 miles on it when it failed.
Ricks I think drilling those extra holes is a good idea.
Rick, So do I . . I have one on my car and don't want to experiance the same thing.. Must look into this.
Steve, we could swap, we should be able to get the same mileage out of either one of the gears.
Actually I have already made the repair with an aluminum gear and for now I'm just going to use the old generator, it works fine.
Ralph,
Some alternators have an internal fan. However, I've always been skeptical of those whose fan has been removed, as in your case. Add to that, the fact that it's now bolted tightly to a very hot engine block.
Mike,
It's hard to tell in your photo but it looks like your gears are not in time.
Timing mark on crank gear is not very deep but it is in time.
If you gotta' have an alternator, belt-driven is best. Dunno whose this is, but a good example.
Years ago I bought a 12v VW bug alternator with the through shaft so I could attach a waterpump.
When I get around to it...